Famous People with Name Madhur

Madhur Bhandarkar            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Madhur Bhandarkar: a National Award winning Indian filmmaker and script writer. He is best known for the films: Chandni Bar (2002), Page 3 (2005) and Traffic Signal (2007).Madhur Bhandarkar ran a video cassette library in Khar, near Mumbai. This gave him access to a large collection of movies and he studied film-making through it.After trying his hand at production and various other stints including as assistant to film director Ashok Gaikwad Bhandarkar landed up as an assistant to Ram Gopal Varma. He even played a small role in his 1995 film Rangeela. In the same year he made a pilot episode of a tv serial 'Apne Rang Hazaar' but did not find success. A couple of years later he made his directorial debut with Trishakti which took more than two years to make and released in 1999. The film had a relatively low key cast and was largely ignored at the box office. After two years he directed Chandni Bar (2001) starring Tabu and Atul Kulkarni. The film was a critically acclaimed success, which took Bhandarkar into the top league of filmmakers in Bollywood. He received his first National Award for this film.

Madhuri Dixit            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Madhuri Dixit: a famous South Indian film actress, who played the heroine role for 17 years in five languages: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi. Director K. Balachander introduced her in a supporting role in his hit Telugu film Marocharithra (1979). She repeated her role in the Hindi remake Ek Duje Ke Liye (1981), which became the top grossing film of 1981. In both films, she showed remarkable sensitivity as a lonely wealthy woman who falls in love with Kamal Haasan. She earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Supporting Actress.[1] Director K. Balachander was so impressed with her performance in both films that he introduced her to the Tamil film industry in the film Thillu Mullu (1981) with Rajinikanth. By the end of the decade, she was starring opposite superstar Amitabh Bachchan in the Hindi film Agneepath (1990). She was once a Miss India participant.